stacked up
Arranged in layers
Stacked up describes how things compare or measure against each other: How does this year's team stack up against last year's?
It also means accumulated or piled: The dishes stacked up in the sink.
In aviation, planes stack up when they're held in a holding pattern, circling at different altitudes while waiting to land.
- piled upAccumulated in quantity
- heapJumbled collection of items
- moundHeaped earth formation
- accumulateGather gradually
- amassCollect in quantity
piled high · added up · overwhelmed · overdue · backlogged · backed up · pending · falling behind · snowballed · compared · cluster · gather · burdened · tallied · tower · compounded · layer · intensified
stacked upspread out
Extended over distance
laid flat · unstacked · dispersed · knocked down · flattened
stacked updepleted
Severely reduced or emptied
dwindled · used up · cleared out · run down · diminished
stacked upfell short
Failed to reach goal
fallen short · underperformed · come up short · lagged behind · disappointed